Recoil Performance Group (DK)

How do we shape nature through labour and how does labour shape a human body? – Two performers from different traditions: a contemporary and a neo-flamenco dancer inhabit this question in a set that incorporates soil and crops.

The piece juxtaposes imagery and sounds from the farming industry to the performers' very own trade of being a dancer. With audience surrounding it, the stage is transformed into a large speaker with technology that makes the floor reverberate, setting the soil and the dancers in motion.

Artist / Company Bio

Led by choreographer Tina Tarpgaard, Recoil creates choreographic works for beings, objects and spaces. The driving force is to decenter the human from the performative space and foster critical thinking.
In several award-winning performances, this was explored through the interaction of human movement and software art. In later years, the research has pursued more analogue universes, which have included other biological entities to put into perspective human presence in the ecosystem and speculate about future scenarios.
Tina Tarpgaard and producer Carlos Calvo are cofounding members of the Danish platform MOMAK (Movement Makers cooperative)

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